History/American Literature

By AJ#2
  • 1492

    Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

    Colombus sails across the Atlantic and discovers America

  • Settlement of Jamestown

    People from England come and make a settlement in Jamestown Virginia

  • The Albany Plan of Union

  • End of the French and Indian War

    The French and Indians were fighting against the British colonies

  • The Boston Tea Party

    When a bunch of colonials painted their faces to look like Indians and threw tea of a British ship

  • The battle of Lexington and Concord

    The Americans won this battle when the British retreated to Boston

  • The Declaration of Independence is signed

    The Founding Fathers gather and sign a document that Thomas Jefferson wrote

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    The last major battle of the Revolutionary War in which the British surrender

  • The end of the Constitutional Convention

    When the Constitution was made

  • The invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    When Thomas Jefferson bought almost half of the United States from France

  • The War of 1812

    It was a conflict between the Americans and the United Kingdoms

  • Invention of the Telegraph

    Samuel Morse invented it

  • Andrew Jackson elected

  • The Trail of Tears

    Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal of Indian Policy

  • The start of the Mexican American war

    The war between the Mexicans and the Americans

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation is signed

  • The Organization of the Standard Oil Trust

  • The Thirteenth Amendment passed

  • The Surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse

    The Confederacy surrenders to the Union

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

    Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play

  • The Fourteenth Amendment is passed

  • Andrew Johnson is Empeached

  • The Fifteenth Amendment is passed

  • Telephone invented

    Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

  • The end of the Reconstruction Period

  • The Electric Light invented

    Invented by Thomas Edison

  • The Pullman and Homestead strikes

  • Spanish American war

    War between the Spanish ans the Americans

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

    Theodore Roosevelt elected

  • Airplane invented

    Invented by The Wright Brothers